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Having trouble sticking to your diet? It's not all your fault, according to "Fed Up" (2014, Anchor Bay, PG, $25), Stephanie Soechtig's absorbing documentary screening at Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas at SteelStacks on Wednesday, Feb. 11. Placing the blame squarely on the food industry for adding sugar to nearly everything in the supermarket, "Fed Up" makes a case that no amount of exercise can counter the effects of eating processed food. Executive producer Katie Couric narrates "Fed Up," which follows the efforts of a handful of overweight teens to win the battle of the bulge. There are also interviews with dietitians as well as found-footage...

For "Big Eyes," director Tim Burton cast four of the biggest, widest eyes in contemporary movies. Two of them belong to Amy Adams, who plays painter Margaret Keane, creator of countless canvases of huge-orbed waifs mysteriously popular for a...

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - Norma McCarty, wife of the late writer-director Ed Wood, who has long had a cult following, and an actress who performed in Wood's films as well as others, died June 27 at a Newhall, Calif., hospital, it was revealed. She was...